Top 4 Creative Cloud alternatives

Pixelmator Pro

£34.99 pixelmator.com/pro

Get the best of Photoshop for a fraction of the cost with Pixelmator Pro, which combines professional imageediting and drawing tools with a user-friendly interface to deliver power without being difficult to use. Download the free 15-day trial to check that it meets your needs.

Inkscape

Free inkscape.org

This powerful vector drawing tool is the perfect substitute for Adobe Illustrator, boasting a broad array of drawing tools, compatibility with standard formats (including Illustrator), as well as Bezier and Spiro curves. Version 1.2 fixes a long-standing performance problem.

Affinity Publisher

£47.99 affinity.serif.com/ publisher

Affinity Publisher offers a much cheaper desktop publishing alternative to InDesign, while boasting many of its tools, a smart (and familiar) interface, and the ability to import InDesign files via files exported from InDesign in PDF format. Give the 10-day trial a whirl.

Master PDF Editor

£34.99 code-industry.net/ masterpdfeditor

While Preview offers some limited PDF-editing tools, if you want to gain the ability to edit PDF text and images give Master PDF Editor a try. A demo version lets you run through all its powerful features, watermarking any saved documents.